Apache Maven PDF Plugin

This plug-in allows you to generate a PDF version of your project's documentation.

Goals Overview

The PDF Plugin only has one goal.

  • pdf:pdf Generates a PDF document containing all project documentation.

Usage

General instructions on how to use the PDF Plugin can be found on the usage page. Some more specific use cases are described in the examples given below.

In case you still have questions regarding the plugin's usage, please have a look at the FAQ and feel free to contact the user mailing list. The posts to the mailing list are archived and could already contain the answer to your question as part of an older thread. Hence, it is also worth browsing/searching the mail archive.

If you feel like the plugin is missing a feature or has a defect, you can fill a feature request or bug report in our issue tracker. When creating a new issue, please provide a comprehensive description of your concern. Especially for fixing bugs it is crucial that the developers can reproduce your problem. For this reason, entire debug logs, POMs or most preferably little demo projects attached to the issue are very much appreciated. Of course, patches are welcome, too. Contributors can check out the project from our source repository and will find supplementary information in the guide to helping with Maven.

Examples

Have a look at the PDF version of this web site.

The following examples show how to use the PDF Plugin in more advanced usecases: